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Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This has been a really useful engagement. A number of committee members were keen to hear from RACO because there was a need for the discussion on this legislation to be broader than simply the triple lock because it has significant implications. I will take this opportunity to thank our guests and their members for their service. I also want to thank retired members of the Defence Forces...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: As Mr. King said to me, it was just a copy-and-paste job and parts of it have no application whatsoever to air traffic control. It was simply lifted and applied even though the terms and conditions are completely different, as are the qualifications.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is absolutely extraordinary – really remarkable. To be totally frank, it sounds quite shoddy. I worked with community organisations and I have been on the board of community organisations. These organisations have two to seven people involved in them and the charity regulator would be on top of a community organisation for not having clear suspension policies. That is quite...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will ask a very brief supplementary. I do not know how often this has applied in the past but has there been any understanding at any stage of even a customary criterion or is it entirely open ended?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On the head regarding informing superior officers about potentially facing a criminal charge that may be investigated and so on, I am not offering a firm view but I am trying to tease out how this is envisaged as operating. Lieutenant Colonel Priestley spoke about how the military police are currently not informed by the Garda Síochána where an investigation is taking place. Is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (8 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 331. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the overcompensation provided as a result of the inclusion of poultry broiler sector within the VAT flat-rate addition scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 566. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance appeal (details supplied). [37359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (8 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 853. To ask the Minister for Health if the linear accelerator and CT scanner in CUH which had been closed in recent times, remain closed as of 2 July 2025; when it is anticipated it will be in use; and the staff that are required to achieve this. [37670/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position with regard to western Sahara. [38035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his position with regard to the recent escalation of conflict and tensions in India and Pakistan. [38034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his Department's recent engagements with the Government of Ukraine regarding the ongoing conflict and efforts made to reach a ceasefire. [38033/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank everyone for their forbearance. It is unfortunate that there are so many votes this evening. To clarify and to be fair to the Chair and the committee, in the context of the scheduling of this meeting there are more than would be typical. We would not necessarily anticipate having to depart so often. It is unfortunate and I thank the witnesses for their patience. My first...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yes, it is my understanding that the heads anticipate a criminal sanction with regard to persons. That brings me to another point. Under the Customs Act, it is not necessarily the case that you have to confiscate items when they arrive at a port from another EU member state, but that is obviously an option. Members of An Garda Síochána and other officers can seize goods at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We can have a bit of a debate, and we are having a debate and various opinions are being offered, as to the policy exception but ultimately we do not really have a final conclusive position from the courts on this particular matter. Is it fair to say the central issue is that it has never been tested, particularly off the back of the International Court of Justice decision? We had a debate...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I, too, was at the same meeting as Deputy Gould. I have been going to political meetings since I was 17 or 18 years of age and I have never left a meeting more shook than I was by that meeting. Some of the stories would make your blood boil and some would break your heart, to hear the accounts of the pain and on top of the pain and suffering, the grief in some instances that some of the...

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----but I am a bit distracted, to be totally honest. I want to address the Minister because I am appealing to her. The attitudes that are being encountered are so dismissive. It is not as if members of the medical profession, or a large section of the profession, were unaware or that this is a new disease or condition. It was not as if there was no knowledge of the best kind of...